Tailored Project Solutions
Trusted Personal Service
Discover Our Walnut Hardwood Flooring
Shop for premium Walnut hardwood flooring at Pennington Hardwoods. We offer both 3/4″ thick solid Walnut floors and 3/4″ thick engineered Walnut floors with a 6mm wear layer. Available in a variety of grades, widths, textures, and finishes, our Walnut flooring is known for its deep, luxurious tones and bold grain patterns. Each floor is carefully made to order, ensuring it reflects your unique style and vision.
We’ve served discerning clients across the U.S. and beyond for decades, with a commitment to craftsmanship, quality, and personal service. Using hand-selected lumber, precision milling, and extensive customization options, we provide a truly distinctive alternative to mass-produced flooring. When you choose Pennington Hardwoods, you’re choosing more than just a floor—you’re investing in lasting character and beauty.
Ready to bring the natural elegance of Walnut into your home?
Characteristics of Our Walnut Hardwood Flooring
Appearance: Walnut is renowned for its rich chocolate-brown heartwood with occasional purple undertones and creamy sapwood highlights. Its swirling grain, depth of color, and natural luster give it a refined, luxurious look. Over time, Walnut lightens slightly with exposure to sunlight, developing a warm, golden patina that adds to its character.
Hardness: Walnut has a Janka hardness rating of approximately 1,010 lbs, making it softer than many other domestic hardwoods. While this makes it easier to work with and slightly more forgiving underfoot, it may show dents more readily in high-traffic areas. With proper care and finishing, it performs beautifully in residential settings.
Stability: Walnut is known for its good dimensional stability. It expands and contracts moderately with changes in humidity, making it a sound choice for most climates and installation methods when properly acclimated and installed.
Versatility: With its elegant, dark tones and bold grain patterns, Walnut is particularly well-suited for formal spaces, modern interiors, and high-end applications. It pairs exceptionally well with metal, stone, and other contrasting materials, and its luxurious appearance makes it a favorite for showpiece rooms and custom design projects.
Popular Applications for Our Walnut Hardwood Flooring
Walnut is treasured by architects, designers, and discerning homeowners for its rich coloration, bold grain, and upscale appeal. It’s commonly selected for:
- Luxury residential interiors
- Executive offices and boardrooms
- Custom-built libraries and studies
- Upscale retail and boutique environments
- Feature rooms and formal living spaces
Walnut’s deep, natural tones and striking grain patterns bring warmth, sophistication, and visual depth to any space. Whether you’re designing a statement room or a whole-home concept, Walnut adds a level of refinement that elevates the entire project.
Let’s talk about how Walnut can elevate your next project.
BROWSE WALNUT HARDWOOD FLOORING PROJECTS
Our Featured Options in Walnut Hardwood Flooring
We offer a curated range of customizable features that highlight the natural warmth and refined grain of Walnut hardwood. From structure to finish, each detail is designed to bring out the best in this timeless species.
Structure
Our solid Walnut hardwood flooring and engineered Walnut hardwood flooring are both great options. Depending on your climate, site conditions, species, cut, and width selections, either one could be strongly favored over the other. Neither is always the right answer, and we will help you make this decision based on real data, not common misconceptions.
- 3/4″ Thick Solid Hardwood Flooring
- 3/4″ Thick Engineered Hardwood Flooring with a 6mm wear layer
Grade
We offer a selection of grades to match your desired aesthetic. See our general grading descriptions below. Not all species are graded the same, however. Please inquire for potential differences and details in the grading of Walnut hardwood flooring and other species.
- Clear – no knots or other forms of character, and minimal color variation
- Natural – small to medium solid knots, other light character, moderate color variation
- Character – medium to large knots, other moderate character, and more color variation
- Rustic – larger knots, knotholes, other heavy character, and unlimited color variation
Width
We regularly offer widths from 3-1/4″ up to 11-1/4″ in Walnut hardwood flooring and most of our other domestic species. You may select any single width or a combination of widths. Other widths such as accent strip and extra wide planks up to 15″ are available on a limited basis. The selections below cover over 97% of what widths we are requested to run.
- 3-1/4″, 4-1/4″, 5-1/4″, 6-1/4″, 7-1/4″
- 8-1/4″, 9-1/4″, 10-1/4″, 11-1/4″, Combined Widths
Texture
We offer a variety of artistic textures to enhance the beauty of our Walnut hardwood flooring, and some are quite popular combined. It’s the perfect way to add old world charm to your home while minimizing the appearance of wear or damage over time. Our textures shown below can also be tailored to your preference of light, medium, or heavy. To view texture examples, visit our page here:
- Hand Scraped
- Wire Brushed
- Band Sawn
- Circle Sawn
- Distressed
- Worn edges
COLOR
We have many ways to achieve your desired color of Walnut hardwood flooring, ranging from simple staining to special chemical treatments, or even a complex combination of our color services described below.
- Simple Staining – single application of a transparent stain
- Complex Staining – multiple applications or more opaque stains
- Reactive Staining – combined chemical reaction and pigment in one
- Cerused Grain – color grain pores, often combined with staining
- Bleaching – used to create lighter versions of many species
- Oxidizing – used to create an aged, weathered, or gray look
- Ebonizing – used to create Oak that is dark brown to black
Finish
We provide industry leading finish options applied with a state-of-the-art finishing line, by Amish craftsmen who put great care and pride into their work. Shown below are our essential finishing options that satisfy that vast majority of Walnut hardwood flooring that we finish, but please feel welcome to inquire if you have different finishing needs or preferences.
- Rubio Oil – top rated UV cured penetrating oil finish with a flat to matte sheen
- Woca Oil – top rated UV cured penetrating oil finish with a matte to satin sheen
- Urethane – top rated UV cured and enhanced surface finish in a matte to gloss sheen
Get a Quote for Our Walnut Hardwood Flooring
No two homes—or homeowners—are alike, which is why we craft every order with your unique vision and preferences in mind. Whether you’re choosing a wide-plank engineered floor for a sleek modern space or a solid character-grade Walnut floor for a warm, rustic interior, we’ll help you design a floor that fits your space and lifestyle.
Start your project today.
Compare with Our White Oak Hardwood Flooring
Trying to decide between Walnut and White Oak? While both are excellent hardwoods, each brings its own distinct personality to a space.
Walnut offers a warmer tone with a more pronounced open grain pattern, lending itself well to traditional or rustic interiors.
White Oak tends to be more neutral in color with a tighter, more refined grain, making it a favorite for modern or transitional designs.
Both are highly durable, versatile, and well-suited to a wide range of finishes and applications.
Ready to Build Something Timeless?
At Pennington Hardwoods, we don’t just make floors—we create heirloom-quality foundations for your life’s most meaningful moments. Our Walnut hardwood flooring is crafted with care, shaped by experience, and chosen for its refined beauty, warmth, and enduring style.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How does Walnut perform in high-traffic areas?
A: Walnut is slightly softer than other domestic hardwoods like Oak or Maple, with a Janka hardness rating of about 1,010 lbs. While it may show dents more easily in high-use zones, many customers find its rich grain and matte finishes help conceal everyday wear. When used with area rugs or in lower-traffic rooms, it retains its beauty for decades.
Q: Does Walnut change color over time?
A: Yes. Freshly milled Walnut is deep brown, sometimes with purple or gray undertones. Over time and with exposure to light, it develops a lighter, golden-brown patina. This natural color shift adds to its charm and warmth, and can be moderated with finish choices if desired.
Q: Do you offer millwork that matches Walnut flooring?
A: Absolutely. We offer coordinated stair treads, risers, vents, thresholds, and trim—crafted from the same premium Walnut and finished alongside your flooring for a seamless look throughout your project.
Q: Is your Walnut flooring sustainably sourced?
A: Yes. We use responsibly harvested Black Walnut from well-managed forests, and our manufacturing practices prioritize efficiency, low waste, and long-term sustainability. Our flooring is designed to last for generations, making it both an aesthetic and environmentally sound investment.
Q: Can Walnut flooring be installed over radiant heating?
A: Yes, Walnut can be installed over radiant heat systems when proper installation methods are followed. We typically recommend engineered Walnut for glue-down applications over concrete or radiant slabs. Our team will help guide you to the best configuration for your home.
Q: What makes your Walnut flooring different from mass-produced options?
A: Our Walnut is crafted one order at a time using select lumber, expert milling, and artisan finishing techniques. We embrace the natural beauty of the species—including color variation and sapwood highlights—offering a far more refined and authentic product than what’s typically available through large-scale flooring retailers.
Q: Still Have Questions?
A: We’re always here to help you choose the perfect floor. Contact us to schedule a one-on-one consultation—we love what we do, and we believe you’ll love what we can do for you.
